Paul Lauritzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Lauritzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauritzen |
| SIGNATURE | LAURITZEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Carroll University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Honor and Memory of Sumner B. Twiss
Sumner B. (Barney) Twiss, who died in 2023, was for ten years a General Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics ( JRE ). He was a frequent contributor of articles, a member of the JRE Editorial Board, and a member of the journal's Board of Trustees. In this article, colleagues and students reflect on some of his many contributions, not only to the JRE but to the broader discursive fields of comparative religious ethics and human rights
The Challenge of Defining Success in Bioethics’ Humanist Wing
In “Reason and the Republic of Opinion,” Leon Wieseltier bemoaned an age that reduces reason to utilitarian calculation and requires almost ritual genuflection before the altar of numbers. The spirit of this age is at work in the field of bioethics where, as Debra Mathews and colleagues point out in “A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship,” researchers and scholars are increasingly “being asked to demonstrate…
The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror
Not Your Founder's Bioethics
If you will be teaching a course in bioethics in the near future, you might want to assign the books here under review, even if you haven't yet read them. All three authors will be familiar to those working in the field of bioethics: Howard Brody (author of The Future of Bioethics) and Daniel Callahan (In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics) as long‐time, significant contributors to the profession, and John Evans (The History and Future of Bi…
Counterterrorism, Dignity, and the Rule of Law
How we interrogate “post-9/11” detainees is the fundamental question in balancing the inherent tension of national security considerations against individual civil and political rights. More significantly, the interrogation measures we adopt define who we are as a society.—amos guiora, 2008Americans, believing themselves to stand proudly for the rule of law and human rights, have become for the rest of the world a symbol of something quite opposi…
Focus on Ethics and Atrocity: An Introduction
Torture Warrants and Democratic States: Dirty Hands in an Age of Terror
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, policy makers and others have debated the question of whether or not the United States should torture in an effort to prevent terrorist attacks. In a series of controversial essays, the legal theorist Alan Dershowitz argues that, if a democratic society is going to torture, it should at least be done under the cover of law. To that end, he recommends establishing a legal mechanism by which a judge could iss…
Response to Richard B. Miller's Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine
In this essay, Paul Lauritzen examines Richard B. Miller's liberal account of pediatric ethics by asking if the duty to promote a child's basic interests is substantial enough to secure the well‐being of children. This question is raised in light of two case studies: daytime TV talk shows that broadcast interviews with sexually active children, and a medical study conducted to test the effect of growth hormone treatment on adult height in peripub…
Stem Cells, Biotechnology, and Human Rights: Implications for a Posthuman Future
Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances
Susan Squier, Catherine Waldby, Anita Silvers, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Paul Lauritzen, Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2005), pp. 4-7
Richer Views of the Ethics of Reproduction
review of Making Babies, Making Families, by Mary Lyndon Shanley; The Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction, by Maura A. Ryan
Cloning and the future of human embryo research
Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Think No Evil: Ethics and the Appeal to Experience
This essay distinguishes three types of appeals to experience in ethics, identifies problems with appealing to experience, and argues that appeals to experience must be open to critical assessment, if experientially-based arguments are to be useful. Unless competing and potentially irreconcilable experiences can be assessed and adjudicated, experientially-based arguments will be problematic. The paper recommends thinking of the appeal to experien…
Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Think No Evil: Ethics and the Appeal to Experience
This essay distinguishes three types of appeals to experience in ethics, identifies problems with appealing to experience, and argues that appeals to experience must be open to critical assessment, if experientially-based arguments are to be useful. Unless competing and potentially irreconcilable experiences can be assessed and adjudicated, experientially-based arguments will be problematic. The paper recommends thinking of the appeal to experien…
Ethics and Experience: The Case of the Curious Response
The move in moral theory toward listening to and accommodating\n"experience" requires that we hear its diversity, take a closer look at its\nnature, and ask how it should function in moral deliberation....To be useful\nto moral deliberation, the appeal to experience must be more than a mere\ncataloguing of events in the life of the agent; the events must be drawn\ntogether in a meaningful pattern
DI's Dirty Little Secret
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Errors of an ill-reasoning reason: The disparagement of emotions in the moral life
What Price Parenthood
Current reproductive technology challenges us to think seriously about social values surrounding childbearing. Thoughtful discussion must combine careful attention to the experience of pursuing parenthood by technological means with principled reflection on the morality of this pursuit
A Feminist Ethic and the New Romanticism Mothering as a Model of Moral Relations
This paper claims that recent attempts to draw on the maternal experiences of women in order to articulate an ethic of care and compassion is a new romanticism. Like earlier romantic views, it is both attractive and potentially dangerous. The paper examines the basic claims of this new romanticism in order to identify both its strengths and weaknesses. I conclude that there are at least two versions of this new romanticism, one that relies primar…
Is "Narrative" Really a Panacea? The Use of "Narrative" in the Work of Metz and Hauerwas
A Feminist Ethic and the New Romanticism Mothering as a Model of Moral Relations
This paper claims that recent attempts to draw on the maternal experiences of women in order to articulate an ethic of care and compassion is a new romanticism. Like earlier romantic views, it is both attractive and potentially dangerous. The paper examines the basic claims of this new romanticism in order to identify both its strengths and weaknesses. I conclude that there are at least two versions of this new romanticism, one that relies primar…
DI's Dirty Little Secret
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Is "Narrative" Really a Panacea? The Use of "Narrative" in the Work of Metz and Hauerwas
Is "Narrative" Really a Panacea? The Use of "Narrative" in the Work of Metz and Hauerwas
A Feminist Ethic and the New Romanticism Mothering as a Model of Moral Relations
This paper claims that recent attempts to draw on the maternal experiences of women in order to articulate an ethic of care and compassion is a new romanticism. Like earlier romantic views, it is both attractive and potentially dangerous. The paper examines the basic claims of this new romanticism in order to identify both its strengths and weaknesses. I conclude that there are at least two versions of this new romanticism, one that relies primar…
What Price Parenthood
Current reproductive technology challenges us to think seriously about social values surrounding childbearing. Thoughtful discussion must combine careful attention to the experience of pursuing parenthood by technological means with principled reflection on the morality of this pursuit
Errors of an ill-reasoning reason: The disparagement of emotions in the moral life
DI's Dirty Little Secret
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ethics and Experience: The Case of the Curious Response
The move in moral theory toward listening to and accommodating\n"experience" requires that we hear its diversity, take a closer look at its\nnature, and ask how it should function in moral deliberation....To be useful\nto moral deliberation, the appeal to experience must be more than a mere\ncataloguing of events in the life of the agent; the events must be drawn\ntogether in a meaningful pattern
Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Think No Evil: Ethics and the Appeal to Experience
This essay distinguishes three types of appeals to experience in ethics, identifies problems with appealing to experience, and argues that appeals to experience must be open to critical assessment, if experientially-based arguments are to be useful. Unless competing and potentially irreconcilable experiences can be assessed and adjudicated, experientially-based arguments will be problematic. The paper recommends thinking of the appeal to experien…
Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Think No Evil: Ethics and the Appeal to Experience
This essay distinguishes three types of appeals to experience in ethics, identifies problems with appealing to experience, and argues that appeals to experience must be open to critical assessment, if experientially-based arguments are to be useful. Unless competing and potentially irreconcilable experiences can be assessed and adjudicated, experientially-based arguments will be problematic. The paper recommends thinking of the appeal to experien…
Cloning and the future of human embryo research
Richer Views of the Ethics of Reproduction
review of Making Babies, Making Families, by Mary Lyndon Shanley; The Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction, by Maura A. Ryan
Stem Cells, Biotechnology, and Human Rights: Implications for a Posthuman Future
Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances
Susan Squier, Catherine Waldby, Anita Silvers, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Paul Lauritzen, Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2005), pp. 4-7
Response to Richard B. Miller's Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine
In this essay, Paul Lauritzen examines Richard B. Miller's liberal account of pediatric ethics by asking if the duty to promote a child's basic interests is substantial enough to secure the well‐being of children. This question is raised in light of two case studies: daytime TV talk shows that broadcast interviews with sexually active children, and a medical study conducted to test the effect of growth hormone treatment on adult height in peripub…
Focus on Ethics and Atrocity: An Introduction
Torture Warrants and Democratic States: Dirty Hands in an Age of Terror
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, policy makers and others have debated the question of whether or not the United States should torture in an effort to prevent terrorist attacks. In a series of controversial essays, the legal theorist Alan Dershowitz argues that, if a democratic society is going to torture, it should at least be done under the cover of law. To that end, he recommends establishing a legal mechanism by which a judge could iss…
Counterterrorism, Dignity, and the Rule of Law
How we interrogate “post-9/11” detainees is the fundamental question in balancing the inherent tension of national security considerations against individual civil and political rights. More significantly, the interrogation measures we adopt define who we are as a society.—amos guiora, 2008Americans, believing themselves to stand proudly for the rule of law and human rights, have become for the rest of the world a symbol of something quite opposi…
The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror
Not Your Founder's Bioethics
If you will be teaching a course in bioethics in the near future, you might want to assign the books here under review, even if you haven't yet read them. All three authors will be familiar to those working in the field of bioethics: Howard Brody (author of The Future of Bioethics) and Daniel Callahan (In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics) as long‐time, significant contributors to the profession, and John Evans (The History and Future of Bi…
The Challenge of Defining Success in Bioethics’ Humanist Wing
In “Reason and the Republic of Opinion,” Leon Wieseltier bemoaned an age that reduces reason to utilitarian calculation and requires almost ritual genuflection before the altar of numbers. The spirit of this age is at work in the field of bioethics where, as Debra Mathews and colleagues point out in “A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship,” researchers and scholars are increasingly “being asked to demonstrate…
In Honor and Memory of Sumner B. Twiss
Sumner B. (Barney) Twiss, who died in 2023, was for ten years a General Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics ( JRE ). He was a frequent contributor of articles, a member of the JRE Editorial Board, and a member of the journal's Board of Trustees. In this article, colleagues and students reflect on some of his many contributions, not only to the JRE but to the broader discursive fields of comparative religious ethics and human rights
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